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Israeli officials try to play down report of U.S. deal with Iran. According to Reuters, Israeli officials played down a report in an Israeli newspaper that accused Washington of secretly negotiating with Tehran to keep the United States out of a future Israel-Iran war.

North Korea says typhoon killed 48 people and left 21,000 homeless. According to The Associated Press, Typhoon Bo-la-ven also left more than 50 people injured or missing, damaged over 120,000 acres of farmland and destroyed or flooded 6,700 houses.

An imam is now accused of planting 'burned' Koran pages in Christian girl's bag. According to the Associated Press, a Muslim cleric is accused of stashing pages of a Quran in a Christian girl’s bag to make it seem like she burned the Islamic holy book, a surprising twist in a case that caused an international outcry over the country’s strict blasphemy laws.